Artist: Helena Gullström
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Website: Helena Gullström

Helena Gullstrom was born and raised in Sunne, Sweden, a small town in the western part of the country. She currently resides in Los Angeles. With painting and drawing being an important part of her life, she began serious study with Franklin Liegel at the Otis Parsons School of Art Design in Los Angeles.

My work is an extension of myself, hopefully ever expanding and evolving. I allow myself using a large array of materials, including concrete, oil, acrylic, wood, metal etc.
This enables me to always feel like as if I’m discovering something, …read more

Artist: John Lewis Jensen
Website: Jensen Knives

Knives are my primary form of expression and exploration, and therefore encompass most of my day-to-day artistic creation. Like most artists, one form or aspect of creation does not define the totality of who I am. However, knives as art, offer me a focal point for many of my varied interest.
The knife is an art form unlike any other, both rich in form and function. It is aesthetic, and quite obvious in its direct use. This poses an interesting challenge; to create art out of an object that is so defined by its form and …read more

Marilyn, 2008, 62″ x 76″ patchwork, applique, beads and sequins

Artist: Andrea L. Stern
Business name: The Embellishment Cafe
Website & Blog:
Embellishment Cafe
Andi Beads blog

Beaded Fairies, Celestia, Regina and Luna, bead embroidery, hand painted faces, machine embroidered wings

How do you describe your work, Andi?
I work in a multitude of media but the main focus is always fiber. Each piece is made of discrete parts, whether it is an embroidery (individual stitches), quilt (individual patches) or beadwork (individual beads). I think I’ve always liked mosaics, the look of millions of tiny parts making a whole image. The Embellishment Cafe was …read more

Artist: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
Location: Washington DC
Website: Raandesk Gallery of Art
What is your creative process like?
I collaborate with nature to create subtle minimalist works made with pure materials that evoke the natural world. Working on the wild coast of southwest Ireland, I created “rain drawings” en plein air, shown spring 2008 in a solo show at Shigeko Bork Mu Project. Shafts of light and ephemeral rainbows– elements of the Irish winter landscape– inspired me to concentrate on light and its natural permutations as the principal subject of these works. Ash and soot from the turf burned in my fireplace, and found crystals, …read more

Artist: Glenna Treasure
Websites:
Artistika
Artistika Gallery
My work is an unusual art form using colour, texture and print scale in fabric to capture a look or effect.
My creative process usually starts with a local scene or a photo. Or I could just be driving in the car, or having a sleepless night when I get an notion. Then I set out to fine the appropriate fabric in my ever growing stash. This process takes some time. I could try a number of textiles before I am satisfied with the results.
Once I am in the middle of a project sometimes I have to take …read more

Jennifer Murray
Artist: Jennifer Murray
Location: East Harlem, New York
Website: Raandesk Gallery

The Stage
Jennifer, how do you describe your work?
Intense, tragic, narrative, and playful.
What is your creative process like?
I really am not someone who can work for long periods of time. I like to work for a few hours and then let the piece kind of “marinate” in my home, where I can casually interact with it and decide how I want to go forward. For me this takes the place of careful planning and testing in the sketchbook. I am a terrible sketchbook keeper. Instead, I try to think of an idea, …read more

Carla E Reyes 
Artist: Carla E. Reyes
Business name: carlacrafts art+interiors
Location: Kew Gardens, Queens, NY
Website: Raandesk Gallery
How do you describe your work, Carla?
The art I make can be described as multi-media painting, textural abstraction, collage, sculptural painting, low relief collage paintings, modern primitive art, nature art…

Microbe Series
carlacrafts is my freelance decorative interior business. I design custom surfaces for interiors as well as decorative art objects. I find that crafts and fine art can inform and inspire one another and I like to work decoratively as well as creatively. I don’t see “crafts” as a lower art form.
What is your creative process like?
I …read more

 
The Secret Garden
Artist: Melinda Asztalos
Websites:
Artistika Gallery
Artistika
Melinda, how do you describe your work?
My work is best described as Multi Media. An integration of text and image is always present behind the thought process of each piece. Texture is also an important part of my paintings as it ads layers of richness as well as visual interest. Layering through the process of collage is encorporated into each piece. The essence of each piece is rooted in the desire to evoke a positive and uplifting feeling.

Orchid 2
What is your creative process like? 
My creative process is similar to the process I utilize with graphic …read more

Artist: Gigi Hoeller
Location: Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia (Sunshine Coast)
Website:
Artistika

My work is described as macro florals; very close images of flowers.
The creative process of my paintings starts off with a thought process. I think of what I want to do for several weeks before I start the actual painting. I visualize how I see the flowers; how I would like the painting to turn out. Depending on my intimate feelings and passion toward the image, it can take from a few days to several months or even years to start the painting. I …read more

Artist: Sausen Mustafova
Location: Frettecuisse, France
Websites:
Artistika
Sausen Mustafova

Sausen, how do you describe your work?
Although it has different themes or topics, my work finally talks about one and single thing: the human being. Whatsoever I paint figures, faces, trees, or houses, they are all different declensions of the same thing: here we are on earth, in our minds as well as in our houses; we are looking for being deep-rooted somewhere, just like trees. Sometimes, my work becomes more abstract, or let us say non-representational. In such a case, it’s only a detail of something: a detail from a bark of a …read more